| Biography
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Teaching
Experience
| 1978
- present |
Private
Studio Instruction |
| 1990
- 1995 |
Instructor
(Part-Time)
St. Petersburg Junior College, Clearwater (Western
Man, Drawing I) |
| 1984
- 1996 |
Instructor
(Part-Time)
Hillsborough
Community College, Dale Mabry Campus and Ruskin Center
Humanities I and II, Art History
I and II, Art Appreciation
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| 1979
- 1982 |
Assistant
Professor, Coordinator of Art and Photography Program
Eisenhower College of the Rochester Institute of Technology (For a
brief time, Eisenhower became the 10th college of RIT)
World Studies curriculum, media and
design, aesthetics of photography. Activities during this period centered
around directing, implementing, hiring, and teaching in a program
for a freshman "feed-in " program for the main campus' internationally
known School of Photography. It included raising funds, building darkroom
facilities. etc. The program constituted one-third of the student
body. |
| 1974
- 1979 |
Assistant
Professor
Eisenhower College, Seneca Falls, New York
Sabbatical after Fulbright study in
Egypt, 1978; show of Egyptian-inspired work at Prouty-Chew Museum,
Geneva, New York. |
| 1972
- 1974 |
Instructor
Eisenhower College, Seneca Falls, New York
Core Curriculum World Studies Program:
sophomore year Renaissance to early 20th century; drawing and design,
painting, film-making, intensive special courses in 19th century architecture,
art theory and criticism; sponsor of self-generated projects and advisor
for independent study in art history, studio art, theatrical and animated
film, photography, and museology. Set designer for college theatre
productions and summer Gilbert and Sullivan series. |
| 1971 |
Lecturer
Part-Time, UCLA
Humanities extension program. Upper
division art history surveys, "Rescued from the Eagle's Nest," a course
relating major 19th and 20th century art movements to film in the
first three decades of the 20th century - first on the west coast,
presented to 400 students in a six-week course at Dickson Auditorium.
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| 1969
- 1971 |
Assistant
Professor
Art History, Fresno State College (now University)
Lower division survey course, upper
division in Greco-Roman and Byzantine, Renaissance and Baroque, 19th
and 20th century, weekend survey courses designed for secondary and
junior college teachers, statewide "art tours" designed for the community.
Developed new and innovative teaching techniques in a rapidly changing
academic environment which included now famous colleague Judy Chicago
and others. |
| 1968
- 1969 |
Instructor
(Sabbatical Replacement)
California State College (now University), Long Beach
Undergraduate surveys in 19th century
art, 20th century art, and graduate seminars in contemporary art. |
| 1967
- 1968 |
Teaching
Assistant
UCLA (Humanities)
Part-Time Instructor
California State, Long Beach (art history) |
Professional
Lectures
| August
2003 |
Curator
and Associates,
Raymond James Center
St. Petersburg, Fl, Stilton Studio
|
| March
1999 |
Hendersonville
Art League
Hendersonville, North Carolina
|
| March
1999 |
Museum
of Fine Arts St. Petersburg Florida Presentation for Docents (including
poetry and musical performance)
Stilton Studio |
March 1999,
February 1997 |
Master
Class / Demonstration for the Lake Lure Artists
Lake Lure, North Carolina |
| March
1997 |
Speaker
- les Arts Culturels Interaction of painting and poetry in the 1995
Paris show
Tampa, Florida |
| December
1996 |
Brandeis
National Women's Committee: Tour and poetry reading
Stilton Studio |
| August
1994 |
Tampa
Museum of Art: Tour and informal talk for museum docents
Stilton Studio |
| March
1993 |
Belleair
Fine Arts Society of the Florida Gulf Coast Art Center: Tour
and media demonstration
Stilton Studio |
| 1992
- 1995 |
Hillsborough
Community College: Art appreciation classes
Stilton Studio |
| 1986 |
Polk
Museum Art Appreciation Class for Board of Trustees
Lakeland, Florida |
| 1985 |
Tampa
Museum Creative Workshop
Tampa, Florida |
Literary
Pursuits |
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In 2000
the Museum of Fine Arts in Springfield, MA, purchased one of Peter Stilton's
"Chair" paintings for its permanent collection.
In 1998,
Peter Stilton was the first American to have a one-man show at the Sorbonne
(University of Paris). Later that year, one of his paintings depicting
Paris was selected to hang in the office of the Mayor of Paris as part
of the permanent collection of the Mayor of Paris in the historic Hotel
de Ville.
His paintings
and sculptures are in private and corporate collections all over the world...from
Tel Aviv to Stockholm, including a commission for the Saudi royal family's
summer palace.
Peter has
had more than three dozen one-man exhibitions of his work, including four
in Paris. He was the subject of a feature story on WUSF radio in 1996,
and was selected as an artist in residence for an arts magnet school in
Greenville, South Carolina in 1997.
Other honors
included:
Peter has
a masters degree in art history from U.C.L.A. and a masters degree from
the University of Southern California in cinema. His college teaching
career includes:
UCLA, California State Colleges at Long Beach and Fresno |
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Eisenhower College of Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) in Seneca
Falls, New York |
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Hillsborough Community College |
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St. Petersburg Junior College in the bay area |
His museum
classes have included an art appreciation class at the Polk Museum of
Art in Lakeland for the Board of Trustees and a creative workshop for
the Tampa Museum of Art.
In addition
to private instruction, he has given professional lectures and demonstrations
for the:
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Hendersonville Art League, North Carolina |
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Lake Lure Artists master class, North Carolina |
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Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL docents |
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Tampa Museum of Art, docents |
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Brandeis National Women's Committee |
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Belleair Fine Arts Society of the FLorida Gulf Coast Arts Center |
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Society of Orlando artists |
Other topics
of lectures for churches, civic groups and museums include:
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Egyptian Art and Architecture |
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Early Christian Art and Byzantine Art |
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Film, Painting and Photograhpy |
| Color
Theory, Arts and Civilization |
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Ultimate Origins of 19th Century Eclectic Architecture |
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Museum Collections (in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Rochester,
Sarasota, FL) |
Literary
pursuits include a bilingual poetry publication by Les Arts Culturels,
Tampa, FL entitled "Portals of Painting and Poetry."
Current
gallery representation includes:
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Baisden Gallery
, Tampa, FL |
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Patricia Cloutier Gallery, Tequesta
, FL
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Art in the Plaza, Belleair, FL |
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Education
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Graduate School
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University
of Southern California
Master of Sciences, Cinema and Film Education, 1971-1972
Film production including courses
taught by members of the Hollywood studio system in camera, lighting,
sound, script writing, makeup, etc.
University
of California, Los Angeles
Master of Arts, History of Art, 1966-1968
Master's Thesis: The Apse Mosaic
of Hosios David, Salonika (discovery of the earliest symbols of
the four evangelists in Christian art).
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Undergraduate School
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Kent
State University
Bachelor of Arts, Fine Art, 1962 - 1966
Enrolled in premedical program;
offered scholarship in architecture; majority of course work in
history with related courses in literature and philosophy; almost
all art courses taken in intensive summer sessions. Honors College
and Phi Eta Sigma (no Phi Beta Kappa at Kent at that time). Contributor
to campus literary magazine (poetry): "The Kent Quarterly".
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